Crossword-Solution: ACETOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acetous | a. | Having a sour taste; sour; acid. |
| Acetous | a. | Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACETOUS | anagram | ACESOUT, CASEOUT |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ACETOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Vinegary | 9 answers |
| Acidic | 14 answers |
| Tangy | 18 answers |
| acerb | 23 answers |
| Acerbic | 24 answers |
| Acrid | 27 answers |
| rancid | 32 answers |
| Bitter | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ANORCE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ACETOUS (5)
See Acescent.] The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
Acetous fermentation commences in seven or eight days, which is a sign that the acrid poisonous principle is dissipated: the pulpy, sour, and fibrous mass is then boiled and eaten; its nutriment being the starch, which exists in small quantities, and which they have not the skill to separate by grating and washing.
Their oven has cake in it, or they are skimming jelly, or attending to some other of the so-called higher branches of cookery, while the bread is quickly passing into the acetous stage.
The delicate refined sweetness which exists in carefully kneaded bread, baked just before it passes to the extreme point of fermentation, is something, of which they have no conception; and thus they will even regard this process of spoiling the paste by the acetous fermentation, and then rectifying that acid by effervescence with an alkali, as something positively meritorious.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).